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Hardcover. Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace. Analyzing transatlantic literature and culture, the book refocuses our view of Ground Zero through the lenses of imperial power and cosmopolitan exchange. Editor(s): Miller, Kristine A. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443205
- ISBN
- 9781137443205
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€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. Editor(s): Amberson, Deborah; Past, Elena M. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137454751
- ISBN
- 9781137454751
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€ 52.90€ 47.15
€ 52.90
€ 47.15
Hardcover. This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing. Editor(s): Kuehn, Julia; Smethurst, Paul. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457578
- ISBN
- 9781137457578
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€ 150.40
€ 150.40
Hardcover. What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Connolly, Tristanne. Num Pages: 297 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461957
- ISBN
- 9781137461957
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€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces. Editor(s): Ramsey, Neil; Russell, Gillian. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474308
- ISBN
- 9781137474308
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Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their religious and gender identities. Editor(s): Chappell, Julie A.; Kramer, Kaley A. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; APFA; DSB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474735
- ISBN
- 9781137474735
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€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. This collection brings together current research on topics that are perennially important to Romantic studies: the life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the landscape and history of his native Switzerland. Editor(s): Esterhammer, Angela; Piccitto, Diane; Vincent, Patrick. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 2ADF; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475855
- ISBN
- 9781137475855
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€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies. Editor(s): Gildea, Niall; Goodwyn, Helena; Kitching, Megan; Tyson, Helen; Brunetti, Aymo. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 12. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478047
- ISBN
- 9781137478047
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€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era. Editor(s): Davidson, Guy; Evans, Nicola. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137478498
- ISBN
- 9781137478498
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€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge around "reading" Wroth, including editing, curating, and digital reproduction. Editor(s): Larson, Katherine R.; Miller, Naomi J. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479624
- ISBN
- 9781137479624
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€ 106.49
€ 106.49
Hardcover. Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists apply different concepts of Deleuzian philosophy to a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels, short stories, and stage, film and television work. Editor(s): Wilmer, S. E.; Zukauskaite, Audrone. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481139
- ISBN
- 9781137481139
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€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools. Editor(s): Attar, Karina F.; Shutters, Lynn. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB; HBLC1; JNM; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481337
- ISBN
- 9781137481337
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Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardcover. Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television. Editor(s): Anderson, Jean; Miranda, Carolina; Pezzotti, Barbara. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483683
- ISBN
- 9781137483683
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€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate; Singer, Christoph. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486769
- ISBN
- 9781137486769
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Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period. Editor(s): Fowler, Joanna; Ingram, Allan. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487629
- ISBN
- 9781137487629
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Condition: New
€ 67.29
€ 67.29
Hardcover. Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with appreciative memoirs for 21st century readers of this well-known masterpiece. Editor(s): Ridout, Alice; Rubenstein, Roberta; Singer, Sandra L. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488374
- ISBN
- 9781137488374
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€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Roberto Bolano is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers of his generation. The first English-language volume on the Chilean author, essays address such topics as Borges's influence, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism and discuss works like 2666, The Savage Detectives, and Distant Star. Editor(s): Lopez-Calvo, Ignacio. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495174
- ISBN
- 9781137495174
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on genre and identifies developments in genre studies in the early 21st century. Genre approaches are applied to examine a fascinating range of texts including ancient Greek poems, Holocaust visual and literary texts, contemporary Hollywood films, selfies, melodrama, and classroom practices. Editor(s): Rulyova, Natalia; Dowd, Garin. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137505477
- ISBN
- 9781137505477
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Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Num Pages: 112 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; CBV; CBX; CFG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137507778
- ISBN
- 9781137507778
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these poets' connections with their Modernist predecessors. Editor(s): Lang, Abigail; Smith, David Nowell. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 276 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137512239
- ISBN
- 9781137512239
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Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Paperback. This volume, now available in paperback, represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during the seventeenth century. Editor(s): Suzuki, Mihoko. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137517968
- ISBN
- 9781137517968
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Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
Hardcover. This is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but the book contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing a multi-faceted way of understanding and appreciating them. Editor(s): Levin, Carole. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSB; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137534897
- ISBN
- 9781137534897
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Condition: New
€ 116.38
€ 116.38
Hardcover. This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation. Editor(s): Murray, Brian H. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543387
- ISBN
- 9781137543387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. Lucretius's shadow is long and extends across the Humanities. Bringing together essays by scholars at the top of their field, this book examines the relationship between Lucretius and modernity. Nuanced and passionate, these essays offer an account of what is at stake when we claim Lucretius for modernity. Editor(s): Lezra, Jacques; Blake, Liza. Series: New Antiquity. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137591890
- ISBN
- 9781137591890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.97
€ 35.99
€ 29.97